Make America Love Again: Seattle students walk out

This story originally ran in the South Seattle Emerald. 

On Monday, thousands of students from schools across Seattle walked out of class as a reaction to the election of Donald Trump as president.The protest joined similar ones that took place in Los Angeles; San Francisco; Silver Spring, Maryland; and Portland, Oregon.

Sharon H Chang

Sharon H Chang is a writer activist who focuses on racism, social justice and the Asian American diaspora with a feminist lens. She is author of the well-received 2015 book Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children In a Post-Racial World. Her pieces have been featured in BuzzFeed, ThinkProgress, Hyphen Magazine, ParentMap Magazine, AAPI Voices and International Examiner. She also serves as a consultant for Families of Color Seattle and is on the planning committee for the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference.